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a bidder's ticket for Hogarth's auction of 19 paintings'
View along Butcher Row from Temple Bar
A paddle steamer disembarking passengers at Greenwich Pier
Original is oil on canvas 37
Richie Norman
A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm a bidder's ticket for Hogarth's'A Novel Fact', 1867. An elderly gentleman considers that any book written by a woman must surely be unsuitable reading matter for his own daughters. Women were, at this time, starting to make their mark in the world of literature. Many people, however, retained their prejudices against such 'blue stockings'. This term for learned woman derives from an eighteenth century club of literary women in London. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December
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